...Michael P. Bibler Laying Claim: African American Cultural Memory and Southern Identity . By Patricia G. Davis . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2016 . xiv, 216 pp. Cloth, $ 34.95 ; e-book, $ 34.95 . Precious Perversions: Humor, Homosexuality, and the Southern Literary...

...Amber P. Hodge Abstract This essay seeks to expand the scope of both US southern and Pacific Islander American studies by examining The Descendants (2007) in conversation with William Faulkner’s southern gothic mainstay As I Lay Dying (1930). The essay positions Hemmings’s novel in a gothic...

...Christopher Hanlon Hanlon's essay depicts South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks's 1856 assault on Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner as a flashpoint for 1850s controversies over the laying of transatlantic telegraphic cable between the United States and England. Widely treated by both...

... the university-based poetry scene. On the other, laying claim to the status of a beginner may be read as a strategy of defense, for it allows poets to present themselves as if they had yet to embark on professional careers. Interpretations of articulations of beginning in first-book poems by Sylvia Plath...

.... Psychometric geology suspends itself between materialism and vitalism in an effort to develop a theory, at once practical and ethical, of interobjectivity. A certain attunement, at once intellectual and intuitive, to the geological past would, according to the Dentons, lay the foundations for a vitalized...

... of scientia sexualis . Primary to Barnes’s vision are the Baptism, the laying on of hands, and the Eucharist, which she opens toward their queer possibilities for affiliation, transmission, and historiography. Her project enables a queer hypersociality, a counterpoint to the antisocial thesis that, in the end...

...Arthur Z. Wang Abstract Calculated sexual games play out across contemporary American popular media, from self-help books and advice columns to dating apps and reality television. This article argues that economic game theory subtends the saturation of popular culture with lay theories of sex...

...Hester Blum In 2007, a Russian submarine planted a titanium flag on the seabed under the North Pole, laying the groundwork for Russia’s claim to Arctic oil and gas resources. Blum’s essay explores the prehistory of Russia’s polar land grab in terms of the influential (if satirized) early-nineteenth...

... the subject of anti-English violence half a world away in order to lay claim to a global English identity. The essay compares the visual representation of that East Indian violence with a well-known image of violence in New England, John Underhill’s figure of the Mystic Fort massacre of the Pequot War...

...Philip Beidler Sitting in Darkness: Mark Twain’s Asia and Comparative Racialization . By Hsu Hsuan L. . New York : New York Univ. Press . 2015 . xii, 244 pp. Cloth , $79.00 ; paper, $24.00 ; e-book available. Mark Twain in China . By Lai-Henderson Selina . Stanford, CA...

... do. ▪ ▪ ▪ A Bundren through and through, loving nobody, caring for nothing except how to get something with the least amount of work. —Cora from As I Lay Dying (1930) by William Faulkner If Poverty Politics talks about class without confronting the uglier side of race, Justin...

... in creating an audience and community for this work. The book lays out its theoretical argument in the introduction and then chronologically works its way from the 1950s forward: from Charles Olson, to Jack Spicer...

...). For LeMenager, the everywhereness of oil presents a problem of materialization, a problem of how to make the everywhere and the ordinary visible. This materialization of oil is necessary, she writes, if we are to lay bare Americans’ ultradeep attachment to a resource they know will soon betray them...

... Schuyler’s 1931 Black No More and Nathanael West’s 1934 A Cool Million exemplify modernist burlesque. Both novels parody conventional genres of upward mobility, such as passing narra- tives and “rags-to-riches” fiction, and in the process, they lay bare unspoken classist and racial assumptions about...

.... The book can be divided into three parts: the first three chapters, which anato- mize the literary protocols of epiphany and lay out the reasons for postmod- ern wariness; the second three chapters, which probe how DeLillo, Kerouac...

... and hyperbole in risk per- ception and representation. The second section lays out the theoreti- cal background of this analysis in more detail by giving an overview of some important approaches and insights in risk theory. The third section returns to the literary representation of risk through a very dif...

... in this context, Rivers’s wartime vow not to “lay down my gun till . . . our brethren all get their freedom” posits a parameter that the Liberator could not countenance (23). “Justice for the future” would demand “reparation for the past”—and, given that the nation’s commitment to African American citizenship...

... access. The keen attention Brim pays to the practical application of queer studies pedagogy is arguably the most important intervention of the text. In chapter 3 Brim productively moves into an interrogation of intellectual labor tied to queer scholarship and lays out a key intervention—that queer...

...- jective is debatable. More than 150 years later, Walsh attempts to account for Poe’s whereabouts during ve lost days’’ preceding his death and thereby lay to rest ‘‘the greatest Poe mystery of all He begins by debunking...

... circumstances. As Lefebvre suggests, they ‘‘over- lay physical space’’ in order to make ‘‘symbolic use of its objects 6 As they represent their material condition, they aestheticize physical spaces, appropriating and changing them into spaces where they can posit new conceptions of how they will live...